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None of those LCD games are "that fun", really. But they can be intresting diversions on occasion.

Seen that before. Not, strictly speaking, a Game&Watch. Not even the same form factor. Would be nice to own, though. Not for that price, though.

Right. It's about what looks good, not about what makes the most sense.

I thought those were destroyed by the Supervision Army, granted the Macross Compendium never did mention who destroyed those. It did mention that the Glaug factory was destroyed by Supervision Forces. My mistake. I thought it was stated the protoculture pulled the plug.

True. I used the one-hit kill code a lot in the later defensive levels.

It's also got that sword thing that throws a bunch of grenades out. That's a blast.

You're a better gamer than I am, then. Took me a fair bit of time to get through several of the stages, even after I shamed myself by dropping it to easy mode.

Hypothetically, it also kept them dependent on their masters. If they wanted working gear to fight with, they couldn't revolt against the protoculture. ... But they did anyways, and just assumed that their automated factories would keep turning out new toys as fast as they busted the old ones. The protoculture blew up the reaction weapon manufacturing facilities before they collapsed, but didn't manage to take the whole infrastructure down, which would've essentially killed the zentradi off.

Actually, the big thing about the chimp experiment(as well as the tongue input ones) is it proves this conception is wrong. As I said, the chimp brain not only controlled the arm(as opposed to flailing it about randomly) , it developed sections of the brain dedicated to control of the robot arm. On the human level we've set up non-invasive rigs, but they aren't very sensitive and just moving a mouse cursor-type object with them is a chore, much less operating in a full 3D space with varying levels of "click". And we're actually born with very little wiring. That's why babies do a lot of nothing for a while. They don't know how to work their bodies. But we've found out recently that we can learn new things well into adulthood(albeit slower than a child does). A person born deaf can learn to hear if he's given a way to pick up sound. Someone born blind can learn to see if given a way to recieve light. Or you could just wire the arms into an adult and let the incredible adaptiveness of the human brain figure it out, as it will based on what we know now.

But the other stuff is an integral part of the show. Macross without singing and insane love triangles is... Gundam.

Which, despite the valid complaints, is a fun game.

PC98 emulation is a major pain in the ass, although I seem to recall one of the iMacross servers having the emulator and the three rom packs for the Macross games available for download. At one point a year or two ago I managed to get one of the games to work on my ex-GF's computer, but haven't touched it since then. Figured as much. Computer emulation gets messy fast.

That's an easily escapable tradition. GaoGaiGar springs to mind immediatly.

*cries* Best for... Famicom/NES: NEStopia or VirtuaNES. Super FamiCom/SNES: ZSNES or SNES9x. PlayStation: ePSXe is the best of a universally bad lot. PS emulation sucks. Saturn: Cassini is the best of an even worse lot. On the upside, no freaking plugin system. PCEngine/TG-16 and expansions: Magic Engine, though it's shareware. Hu-Go is pretty good too. Arcade: MAME is really the only option available, sadly. Dunno about GameBoy Color or PC98.

Should I point out that DYRL and VFX2 are also "available through emulation"?

You can get decent distance if you flick them right. Besides, they're super-powered playing cards. May as well give him a playing card railgun.

A sentiment vocalized by many diffrent people at many diffrent times.

Problem is this looks like a throwback to the old silly combiner super robot shows from the 1970s and 1980s instead of something that has the potential to usher in a new era of mecha anime that takes a step closer to reality. *shrugs* Giant robots are giant robots. I've got no problem with a few good super robots, which is fortunate since that seems to be the trend lately.

I never thought of it that way before..... Britney Spears isn't so bad though...imagine an alien "boy-band" performing a Backstreet Boys song while dancing to subdue us....ZOMG....DE KULCHA!!!! So THAT'S why Exedole tried to sing "My Boyfriend's a Pilot"!

Well, they sorta acknowledge this at the end where Misa admits that it was simply a "pop song" about love. Nobody ever claimed that they had discovered a masterpiece by the Protoculture's Mozart. Also, if you had never heard any music before. . . and had no concept of any culture, I would think that any music would be shocking. Possibly even Ashly Simpson. H To be fair, I find a lot of our music shocks me into a non-functional state.

That goes without saying. Graham *sketches a UN Spacy logo on the chest of a Wing Gundam* It's a genuine 100% real Macross product. Honest. The guy inteh alley in China wouldn't lie to me...

Oooohhh... shiny...

Team Knight Rider made me sad. They should not have the ability to improve KARR. Writing was, generally speaking, bad. At least from the handful of episodes I saw. And the vehicles were lame. No awesome special abilities, they were just bulletproof cars. ... Except the motorcycles. And whoever thought bulletproof motorbikes was a good idea should be run over by them.

As long as we're doing phonetics... Pheyos sounds a lot like feo. Spanish for ugly. Nah, the VF-X2 names were Hollywood movie-related on purpose, Timothy Dalton and Marlon Brando etc. Remember all the mission codenames were movie titles, with the last one named "Do You Remember Love?" Heh. Pheyos STILL sounds like feo, though.

Actually, it's not simple fascination with the idea. There's good valid reasons to do it when the tech is available. It gives faster response times and more intuitive controls and interfaces. They've actually found in modern research that a chimp wired into a robot arm will actually develop brain sections devoted to working the robot arm. It becomes just another part of the chimp's body. If I recall, similar effects can be seen in sensory devices feeding data in through the tongue(long story short, it's got a LOT of nerve endings and isn't doing a whole lot with them unless you're eating, making it a perfect place to hijack for input). They actually try to show some of this with the scenes showing Guld's "view" from the YF-21. He can "see" the full sensor suite's view without having to look down at viewscreens or toggle modes. X-ray, IR, visible light, etc all comes in like an extension of his own eyes. Furthermore, he can see things that would be virtually impossible to project onto conventional displays intelligibly, like missile maneuverability cones. And, of course, there's the launch sequence where they show him "flexing" his hands to adjust the plane wings and his feet to tweak the thrust vectoring. A massive dumbing-down of the actual situation, but really the best you can do with a visual medium. Despite the massive complexity of a top-end variable fighter, once you learn the interface piloting a VF becomes as intuitive as walking down the street, which is more than any modern single-mode fighter can claim, much less a variable fighter with conventioanl controls. Which ties back to DYRL-style Bodol, actually. A fleet commander doesn't need a conventional body. What he needs is instant access to his fleet without a chain of peons standing between him and his comm system, defensive weaponry, offensive weaponry, etc waiting to misunderstand orders that already take valuable seconds to hand out. What better way to do this than make the ship istelf the commander's body? The big question is why ALL zentradi aren't interfaced to their ships in DYRL, from the regults on up. And THAT is the same reason Macross 7 isn't full of BCS/BDI valks. It's all about aesthetics. A pilot that sits there motionless with his eyes shut doesn't make for good animation. It's alien and un-natural to the viewer. They want to see people running around and yanking joysticks. ... Truthfully, Mac7 should be full of BCS drones(Sharon Apple is but one of a large number of problems with AI, and likely not the first one to worry about). Remote piloting removes the restriction of the human body, which is enough of a problem that real-world fighter jets have limiters to keep pilots from killing themselves. But remote control is even less appealing to the average viewer than neural interfaces.